8 March 2013

Early Man - Closing In

Thunder - when I was a kid, I was told that if your saw
lightning and counted seconds till you heard the thunder, you would know how
far away it would be in miles. Obviously the less time you counted, the
closer it was. Now this is nothing to do with the title of this album, but I
wanted to give some sort of idea of what it was like when I first heard this
album.

This album was released in 2005, when this band was a two piece. Honestly when
I got the CD which I purchased on the back of the track "Death Is The
Answer" which I had heard on Pandora when you could cheat and get it in
the UK - seriously, it only asked you for a zip code. For the record, the
only one I knew was 91210....I have no shame. What struck me about
"Death Is The Answer" was how primal and just back to basics it was.
Even now almost 8 years on it still is an astonishing piece of music, that
opening which brings to mind Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and just that old
school metal vibe with an almost Bowie vibe make the old school rocker in me
jump for joy.

And that is only one song. There is a further 10 tracks on this debut
album. Now I will admit that Early Man are not what you will call an
original band, they are treading a path as wide as the river Hudson on
the banks of their original home city (New York) - they now hail from Los
Angeles. It is that early (to coin a phrase) NWOBH sound that made Judas
Priest, Iron Maiden, Ozzy Osborne and others famous. They use it to such
a fantastic degree on songs such as "Evil Is", "Like A Goddamm
Rat" and "Brain Sick" that just brings a faith in metal and rock
music back to this man. It is just honest metal, it is not trying to be
hip, and it is not trying to be anything else that what it is.
Like thunder and lightning these guys are just a joy to listen to and need to
be done very very loudly. At the moment these guys have a campaign going on for
a new album, like the pledge music campaign that Ginger Wildheart did so
well. I would recommend that you join in if you can, I hope they get
there target (and extend it by one day so I can afford to do it).
Until then, and I think this might be on my tombstone if I get that
luxury.....DEATH IS THE ANSWER TO MY PRAYERS!!!!!!
YYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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